The Statue of Charlemagne is located just outside Notre Dame de Paris.
Statue of Charlemagne
The name Charlemagne initially caught my attention because it sounds like ‘Saruman’, the character from movie “Lord of the Rings.”
Charlemagne and France
Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, was the emperor of the Frankish Kingdom from 768 to 814. Under King Charlemagne, the kingdom covered large part of the Western Europe.
The Frankish Kingdom was later split into 3 by Charlemagne’s descendants; one of the 3 areas was Western Francia under the control of Charles the Bald, which became the foundation for modern France.